Knitted fabric



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Filed Oct. 9, 1946 April 26, 1949. H. H. HQLME'S KNITTED FABRIC 2Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed Oct. 9, 1946 47W 7W' fw B @M wy A Harney,

Patented Apr. 26, 1949 KNITTED FABRIC Henry Harold Holmes, Leicester,England, as-

signor to Wildt and C England, a British c Application October 9, 1946,Serial No.

ompany Limited, Leicester, ompany In Great Britain October 19, 1945Claims.

This invention relates to knitted fabric and has for its object toprovide an improved terry loop fabric, as will be hereinafter described.

The expression knitted fabric is to be regarded generically as includingnot only fabric knitted in lengths, such as for manufacture subsequentlyinto garments, but also knitted articles and garment lengths knittedseparately, or in string formation, where the context so admits, as willbe recognised by those skilled in the art.

As is well known, terry loops are formed from a thread or threads fed tothe needles of a knitting machine conjointly with a yarn or yarns, forexample in plating relation, by sinker loops of the thread or threads sothat such loops project from one surface of the fabric and provide asoft feel, or plush or pile effect, which may be enhanced by combing orbrushing the loops.

For the purpose of conciseness and distinction in the following furtherdescription and in the appended claims the expression thread will beused with reference to the terry loops and the term yarn will beemployed in respect of regularly knitted primary stitches.

In order that the invention may be more clearly understood and readilycarried into practical effect examples of the improved knitted fabricwill now be described with reference to the accompanying drawings,wherein:

,Figure 1 is a face view, drawn to a greatly magnified scale, of aportion of knitted fabric incorporating terry looping.

Figure 2 is a sock knitted in accordance With this invention.

Figure 1 illustrates, by way of example, the inside of a piece ofknitted fabric incorporating features of the invention. As will be seen,the fabric thread T. The portion M is intended to represent heel, toe orfoot bottom fabric of a knitted article of hosiery, the adjoiningportion O rep- The entire portion M half-round terry. The referenceletter N indicates needle loops and the letter S sinker loops of theground yarn G, the terry loops TL being constituted by elongated sinkerloops of the thread T formed over the sinker loops S.

The instep portion O is divided into three adjoining panels, viz., a ribpanel P of three ribs R, R2 and R3, a panel Q of links-link fabric withloops knitted in both rib and plain directions, and

2 a panel S of plain ground fabric interspersed with ected terry loopssuch as TL1 constituting a pattern effect or design.

The invention also includes as a featureas produced on a circularseamless hose machine with co-axial needle cylinders includingdoublesock comprising a welt, a 1 x 1 or other rib top, a legwithbroaderrib orrib and/or links-links pattern interspersed withselected terry loop effects in the plain stitch portions or effects thesame is reversed after knitting to expose the terry pattern effect ordesign. A specie example of a sock made i`n accordance with theinvention is depicted in Figure 2. This sock comprises a welt w followedby a 1 x 1 rib top rt, a leg l composed of spaced rib panels rp,intervening panels ZZ of selective transfer (links-links) and panel stof selective terry, a high heel hh a terry heel h, reinforced orotherwise, and a foot comprising an instep i patterned in the samemanner as the leg l, a terry foot bottom fb, a terry ring toe t and aterry toe tl, reinforced or otherwise, according to requirements. lcrepresents the linking courses.

What I claim then is:

1. Knitted fabric with pattern effects constituted by terry looping inat least one desired area, said pattern effects being interspersed withboth rib stitch and also links-links stitch effects, and with terryloops throughout at least one selected section of the fabric.

2. A knitted article of hosiery comprising a Welt, a rib top, a leg withrib and links-links patterns interspersed with selected terry loopeffects in plain stitch panels, and a terry heel, sole and toe.

3. A knitted article of hosiery according to claim 2, which includes aterry high heel portion and a terry ring toe.

4. A knitted article of hosiery comprising a welt, a rib top, a leg andinstep with spaced rib panels and intervening panels of links-linkspatterns and plain stitch panels patterned with selected terry loopeffects, a terry high heel, a terry heel, a terry foot bottom, a terryring toe and a terry toe.

5. A knitted article of hosiery comprising a welt, a rib top, a ribbedleg and instep of a broader rib than the said top and having patterneffects 4 constituted by terry looping in the plain stitch UNITED STATESPATENTS panels, and a terry heel, sole and toe. Number Name Date2,098,446 Agulnek Nov. 9, 1937 HENRY HAROLD HOLMES' i 2,183,862 DavisDec. 19, 1939 0 2,231,399 Thurston Feb. 11, 1941 REFERENCES CITED2,241,901 Davis May 13, 1941 The following references are of record inthe 2,244,153 Hanisch 1 June 3, 1941 le of this patent: 2,370,449 ClarkeFeb. 27, 194.5

